People that are out of the norm and have a purpose
The Funk Brothers (Any of them, especially "Igor" if he was alive),
All Motown (Funk Brothers, James Jamerson-the best shit ever), Paul Butterfield, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Chico Hamilton, Gabor Szabo, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Benny Benjamin, Blue Mitchell, Dr. John, The Leftovers, JLH, BDS, Medeski Martin and Wood, Frank Zappa and the Mothers, The Yardbirds, James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Booker T. and the MG's, Donald "Duck" Dunn, The Kinks, Desmond Dekker & the Aces, The Stones, The Beatles, The JB's, Urban Dance Squad, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, Doug E. Fresh, Furious Five Tribe Called Quest, Anita O'Day, "The Dan", Phil "the Soulman" Strohman, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Love, The Stooges, MC5, Dead Kennedys, Misfits, The Exploited, The Disorderlies (all that old school punk), Roberta Flack, The Electric Prunes, The Sonics, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Dungen, Os Mutantes, Elliott Smith, Mock Duck, The Thrashing Butterflies of Devine Happiness, Status Quo, The Cadillacs, The Fleetwoods, The Meters, Nina Simone, The O'Jays, Cream, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Freddy Robinson, Michael Bloomfield, Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, Zeppelin.....this could go on forever!
Better off Dead (Classic 80's comedy), Rushmore, Wonderland, The Monterey Pop Festival, American History X (anything with Ed Norton), Welcome to Collinwood (anything with Sam Rockwell), all Indiana Jones movies, War movies, prison movies, Drug movies (Though usaully depressing), I love gang or mafia movies (The Warriors, Wanderers and Goodfellas). Mystery movies, and flicks that make you really think. The Last house on the Left, House of 1000 Corpses, Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, Raising Arizona, King of New York, Bronx Tale, SLC Punk, Basketball Dairies, Jackie Brown, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, World at War- DVD Collection, Jazz on a Summers Day. Anything with creative cinematography, Man on Fire, Natural Born Killers, Rosemary's Baby, SPUN, Halloween......
Prison Break...Best fuckin' show ever
History and non-fiction (Don't really care for novels too much)
Dwight D. Eisenhower and my brother-in-law